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Ever increasing threat of home invasion, so I bought:

Hosehead said:
I finally have a new one to the collection to post. My brother in law back home in Oklahoma is always buying and searching for unique guns. He called me the other day as he knew I'd been looking for a smith and Wesson model 66.
I'm going back home for a visit next week to pick this baby up!
Can't wait to shoot it. Check out the grips!! Has anyone ever seen a model 66 with these grips?

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Nice. I have never seen those grips.
Pretty for display purposes, but try Pachmayr grips for everyday use and practice at the range.

The Pachmayr grips that I use have palm swells, finger grooves, and the grip taper is fatter at the top and narrower near the base. The texture and feel of the grip material is comfortable and does not abrade the skin.
 
DeltaV said:
Nice. I have never seen those grips.
Pretty for display purposes, but try Pachmayr grips for everyday use and practice at the range.

The Pachmayr grips that I use have palm swells, finger grooves, and the grip taper is fatter at the top and narrower near the base. The texture and feel of the grip material is comfortable and does not abrade the skin.
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I considered Pachmayr rubber grips a gunfighters grip. They like, stick and do not slip. I never used the wood one, but Pachmayr does make a laminated wood grip.
 
Hosehead said:
I finally have a new one to the collection to post. My brother in law back home in Oklahoma is always buying and searching for unique guns. He called me the other day as he knew I'd been looking for a smith and Wesson model 66.
I'm going back home for a visit next week to pick this baby up!
Can't wait to shoot it. Check out the grips!! Has anyone ever seen a model 66 with these grips?

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That is a nice S&W!!
 
Thanks for the replies, guys. I'm pretty pumped to finally see it next week. As much as I love these grips, my hands already hurt thinking of shooting it. I've already ordered a pair of the pachmayr grips. That's the first thing my brother in law suggested.
Still curious about the pearl grips, though. My brother in laws is good friends with the seller at the gun shop who swears they're original S&W grips. Can't find any info on the internet so far. Still looking.....
 
You could special order them if you bought out of a catalog back then . Most people just took what was on the shelf . I've seen them before but they are very rare and often cracked take them off and save them !
 
Bb70charger500 said:
You could special order them if you bought out of a catalog back then . Most people just took what was on the shelf . I've seen them before but they are very rare and often cracked take them off and save them !
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First thing I'll do!
 
One day I'll explain the birds and the bezz to explain how mother of pearl makes pearl grips!

@Richard Cranium do you have a picture maybe?
 
A little something something I just put together the bi pod is leaving I don't like it .
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Another full top shelf gun for around $700-800 bucks and it shoots as good as it looks !
 
I thought about it ,this can go here too. I'd use it for home defence ! Don't want to wake the baby up when she comes!
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biomedtechguy said:
I'd like to build my own. Cheaper and often better.
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Yes you can build a gun cheaper then off the shelf and be about the same quality of weapon. I take advantage of swapping parts that are inferior with better parts . So at delta team tactical .com they sell gun kits if you wait a high end kit will come across your email for under $300 (no bcg or lower) you can buy a lower at most any gun shop for $70+$20 transfer(ffl item) and a bcg can be had as cheap as $70-100
So after you do the math out the door your just under $500 for a $700-800 off the shelf gun !
There not hard to build there is really small parts and springs!!!!! But not bad at all
 
Bb70charger500 said:
Yes you can build a gun cheaper then off the shelf and be about the same quality of weapon. I take advantage of swapping parts that are inferior with better parts . So at delta team tactical .com they sell gun kits if you wait a high end kit will come across your email for under $300 (no bcg or lower) you can buy a lower at most any gun shop for $70+$20 transfer(ffl item) and a bcg can be had as cheap as $70-100
So after you do the math out the door your just under $500 for a $700-800 off the shelf gun !
There not hard to build there is really small parts and springs!!!!! But not bad at all
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Bb70charger500 said:
you can buy a lower at most any gun shop for $70+$20 transfer(ffl item)
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That sounds cheap, but there is a local shop I bought my FNH 5.7 from and my Ruger LCP II. I managed to get $100 off the $1,300 price tag on the 5.7, knowing that I could get one from an online shop for $1,090. So it cost me $110 more (plus tax?) to buy from my local shop, but they have spent a lot of time with me and share a lot of knowledge. The owner is in the military and trains SEALS locally and one of his sales guys (who I usually deal with) is a LEO and former Air Marshal, so when I get advice on firearms, ammo, and tactical "how to" advice from them it's the real deal.
The LEO sales guy suggested an AR-10 that fires 7.62x51mm or .308 (for those who don't know) which is a BIG round. He made that suggestion when I was asking about a. 458 SOCOM rifle.
Anyway, between my research and my particular percieved uses for a rifle, and the recommendation of the owner, a AR-15 platform "pistol" (to work around a federal tax stamp for a SBR) with a 300 Blackout caliber upper, using a suppressor (aka silencer) and subsonic ammo was just the ticket! I am also going to get a .223+5.56 upper so I can share ammo with my wife in case I run out of 300 Blackout ammo and the Zombie horde has not yet been fully dispatched.
Easier to find and make rounds of 300 Blackout, way lighter than an AR-10, still a large projectile, interchangeable upper to share ammo, and whisper quiet with the suppressor and subsonic ammo.
I hope the "hearing protection act" passes into law, but I am not going to wait, and I am going to go ahead and file my application for my federal tax stamp for the suppressor now. I expect it will take 6 months or so to get through that process. If the hearing protection act passes, I'll get my $200 back from the feds anyway, and the demand for suppressors is going to skyrocket once it passes, so that's another reason to get busy with filing my app now.
 
Local businesses are great if there decent people . But the ones around here are trying to gouge $300 more then list price! I shop my guns as I can't afford to give money away . I prefer to keep money local though !
 
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